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Ribbon Cutting Will Open Bike Access to Treasure Island Seven Days a Week
East Bay bike riders who have been wanting to use the Bay Bridge path to connect all the way to the island: now there will be safer access every day of the week.
May 5, 2023
Berkeley Safety Advocates Stage a “Die-In” to Protest Delay on Hopkins
To goad the city into prioritizing safety changes along Hopkins, several local advocacy groups sponsored a "die-in" on that section of the street Wednesday.
April 19, 2023
Advocates Demand Protected Bike Lanes on Arguello
"I'm sick of it," said District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, addressing a crowd of some 60 people Tuesday morning on the steps of San Francisco City Hall at a rally for protected bike lanes on Arguello.
April 18, 2023
Not a Surprise: 101 Freeway Widening Shows Negative Results
Engineer on 101 project admits $600 million freeway widening accomplished nothing
April 12, 2023
NASA Adopts SFMTA Decision-Making Model for Lunar Mission
NASA managers and engineers, impressed with SFMTA's outreach and community meeting program, have decided that the next moon launch will be based on intuition, public comment, and the "better than nothing" model of orbital mechanics.
March 31, 2023
A Deep Dive Into Center-Running Bike Lanes, a Known Infrastructure Failure
In 2016, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of the Copenhagenize blog, wrote a great post he shouldn't have had to write in the first place, explaining why center-running bike lanes are dangerous and stupid. Given the recent push to repeat this failed design on Valencia, Streetsblog decided to run it here.
Mikael Colville-Andersen
March 22, 2023
AVs Probably Won’t Revolutionize Parking
Replacing human drivers with self-driving taxis might not actually remove many space-wasting parking lots from dense American cities, a new study finds, throwing doubt onto one of the core arguments in favor of the autonomous vehicle revolution.
March 20, 2023
Jeffrey Tumlin Stereotypes Cyclists, Fans Anti-bike Hate
SFMTA director talks about civility, even as he stereotypes people on bikes and pours gasoline on anti-cyclist fervor
March 2, 2023
Commentary: Bay Area DAs Complicit in Anti-Cyclist Attacks
Prosecutors declared it open season on cyclists; nobody should be surprised at the horrifying results
February 15, 2023
Open Letter to SFMTA: Stop Watering Down Slow Streets
Slow Streets started with unambiguous signs that made clear to drivers that Slow Streets were “closed to thru traffic.” Over time, they have been watered down, covered up, or not installed at all. This is the wrong direction for Slow Streets; we need SFMTA to do more, not less.
February 8, 2023